Burkina Faso

to the raiding of open buffets by wedding crashers — are becoming all too common. Earlier this month, when Egypt beat BurkinaFaso in the first semifinals match of the soccer African Cup of Nations, Kuwait's ministry of interior warned Egyptian expats

the same people, and we remain the same people," he said. Others attending included the heads of state of Mauritania, BurkinaFaso , Ivory Coast and Ghana, and the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield